We're entering an exciting new era of deep ocean mapping', Celine Gerson, Fugro's group director for the Americas and ...

An enormous but poorly understood region of the global ocean—referred to as the abyssal benthic boundary layer—lies a few ...

Growing evidence suggests that a subsurface ocean lurks beneath the icy surface of Uranus' moon Ariel, but new research, ...

The habitat of 30 species of sharks, rays, and chimaeras, also called ghost sharks, overlap with areas where proposed ...

NHMAIN copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift of Alan R. Kabat. Fewer people have been to the deepest part of the ocean than have been to the moon. Even now, the vast majority of ...

Thousands of meters below the ocean's surface lurk some gigantic creatures, much larger than their shallow-water brethren. Scientists have a few hunches for why this happens, but the debate continues.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory is advancing technology to map the ocean floor using automated vessels, aiming to enhance search and rescue operations.

The coral Iridogorgia chewbacca, found in the tropical Pacific, has long branches, and its DNA confirms that it is a new ...

The Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) pact, known as the High Seas Treaty, was first agreed in 2023 and is ...